December 7, 2009 – 1:53 pm
Europe’s largest bat colony during wintertime is situated in a cave in (Romania – the editor) Trascau Mountains (center-west) called ‘Huda Lui Papara’, where nine species of bats are hibernating, according to researches made by biologists of Cluj-Napoca. President of the Sfinx Girda de Sus Speleological Association, Christian Ciubotarescu said in a news release that [...]
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December 5, 2009 – 12:07 am
Today a new version of the website Ukrainian Institute of Speleology and karstology (UYSK): http://www.institute.speleoukraine.net/ is availabele. UYSK opened access to the archive of magazine “Svet” – “Light”, with opportunities searching for various key (years,numbers, authors, headings). As a result of large work, now all materials, published in the journal “Light” from 1991 years – [...]
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December 3, 2009 – 9:29 am
From 2009 october 9 to 2009 november the regular expedition Kizil-Koba was held in Crimea region, with 80 cavers participating. 50 from Ukraine, 20 from Russia, and 9 from Moldavia. The expedition results are 370m of new surveyed passage in Red Cave, at the passage of the four siphons. Diving in Doves cave (siphon 50m/-7m), [...]
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December 1, 2009 – 9:44 am
From 03.08.2009 to 25.08.2009, a group of 25 Moscow based cavers worked in Caucasus, Arabika. The main project was diving in Ilyukhina system (total depth -1253m) at the depth of -720m, climbing in a branch at -800m, and -500, working in cave Ice Dragon (-150m and goes on, entrance at 2290m), and the exploration of [...]
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